{"id":33955,"date":"2026-08-11T09:20:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=33955"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:20:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:20:58","slug":"wilkes-barre-memorial-service-for-dr-christopher-breiseth-this-saturday-815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/wilkes-barre-memorial-service-for-dr-christopher-breiseth-this-saturday-815\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkes-Barre Memorial Service for Dr. Christopher Breiseth this Saturday 8\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Wilkes community are invited to attend memorial services for Wilkes&#8217;s fourth president, Dr. Christopher N. Breiseth, at 11 a.m. on Saturday, August 15, at First Presbyterian Church, 97 S. Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre.\u00a0 More information about Dr. Breiseth&#8217;s life and career can be <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wilkes.edu\/2026\/07\/02\/wilkes-remembers-dr-christopher-n-breiseth-universitys-fourth-president\/\">found here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A memorial service was held for Dr. Breiseth near his hometown in upstate New York on Saturday, July 18, and a recording of the full program can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christopherbreiseth.com\/obituary-and-memorials\">viewed here<\/a>.\u00a0 When available, a recording of the Wilkes-Barre service will be included on this page.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Wilkes community are invited to attend memorial services for Wilkes&#8217;s fourth president, Dr. Christopher N. Breiseth, at 11 a.m. on Saturday, August 15, at First Presbyterian Church, 97 S. Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre.\u00a0 More information about Dr. Breiseth&#8217;s life and career can be found here.\u00a0\u00a0 A memorial service was held for Dr. Breiseth&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/wilkes-barre-memorial-service-for-dr-christopher-breiseth-this-saturday-815\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wilkes-Barre Memorial Service for Dr. Christopher Breiseth this Saturday 8\/15<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33961,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33955\/revisions\/33961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}